ACS is excited to announce that Team USA earned four gold medals at the 57th International Chemistry Olympiad (IChO) held in ...

Researchers provide a debrief about how their mapping of key locations, including private wells, septic systems and service ...

The ACS Committee on Chemists with Disabilities Student Travel Award is to encourage and support the participation of students who advance the mission of ACS-CWD and will present a talk or poster at ...

Researchers have developed a sponge-like material with long, microscopic air pockets that uses sunlight and a simple plastic ...

Researchers are working to make new textiles and improve common fabrics by adding desirable scents, antimicrobial coatings ...

Melamine sponges may easily erase stains and scuffs, but they are also shedding microplastic fibers into the environment as they’re worn away, according to research in Environmental Science & ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are potentially harmful substances known as “forever chemicals” because they are so difficult to destroy. One emerging technique to degrade PFAS involves ...

American Chemical Society: Chemistry for Life.Ivermectin has proved to be one of the most extraordinary drugs ever discovered for the treatment and control of parasitic diseases and has become an ...

In 1947, Marie Maynard Daly made history. The young Columbia University student from Queens, New York, became the first African American woman to graduate with a Ph.D. in chemistry in the United ...

Around 1900, physicians and scientists began to conceive of a new category of diseases, caused not by germs but by inadequate nutrition. Since that time, nutritional research has led to vast ...

DayGlo fluorescent pigments, a new class of pigments based on fluorescent dyes and polymeric materials, were developed between the 1930s and 1950s.

Izaak Maurits Kolthoff (1894–1993) has been described as the father of modern analytical chemistry for his research and teaching that transformed the ways by which scientists separate, identify, and ...